Research

Dr. Joseph Gingerich, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, chairs a session: Intra-Site Spatial Analysis of Mobile Peoples and presents “Modeling Discrete Paleoindian Work Areas” at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, D.C., this month. The mission of the Society for American Archaeology is to expand understanding […]

English doctoral candidate Micah McCrary’s debut memoir, Island in the City, has been accepted for publication by University of Nebraska Press. McCrary’s primary area of study is rhetoric and composition, though he has a secondary specialization in creative writing (nonfiction). His memoir grows out of his work as a Master […]

Dr. Eve Ng authored an article titled “LGBT Advocacy and Transnational Funding in Singapore and Malaysia” in the journal Development and Change. Ng is a core faculty member in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies program at Ohio University. She is also Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Studies. Abstract: […]

Dr. Geoff Buckley, Professor of Geography, has co-edited a new volume of essays, The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States (Rowman & Littlefield). Buckley’s co-editor, Dr. Yolonda Youngs, is an assistant professor of global studies at Idaho State University. “Because I am an environmental historical geographer, […]

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, delivered the keynote address at the fifth annual Northeastern Ohio Undergraduate Sociology Symposium at Oberlin College. The theme of this year’s symposium was #sociology:asrelevantasever. The title of Scanlan’s talk was “Sociology and Its Discontents: The Ongoing Significance, Persistence, and Necessity of the Sociological […]

Six students from the Political Science Department presented their work at the 2018 Student Research and Creative Activity Expo on April 12. Five hailed from the Honors Tutorial Program, the sixth from the M.A. program in Political Science. Four of the six presenters received awards. HTC student Reiya Bhat received […]

Political Science graduate student Fatma Jabbari recently presented a paper on “The Discursive Production of Citizenship and Social Identity in Textbooks: The Case of Tunisia,” at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco April 4-7. Jabbari’s paper, connected to her thesis project on the Arab uprising in Tunisia, involved […]